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Tanks filled with water treated after cooling melted nuclear fuel dot the premises of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. (Asahi Shimbun file photo) The government continues to defer a decision on dealing with more than 1 million tons of contaminated water stored at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, an issue that has drawn international attention. The Cabinet on March 9 approved the government’s revised basic policy for reconstruction of the Tohoku region for fiscal 2021, which begins in April, and beyond. But the policy only stated that a conclusion would be made “at an appro...

MINAMI-SOMA, Fukushima Prefecture--Runa Hoshiyama is starting to ask questions that her mother is re

Sumo ring offering respite to Tohoku victims a decade after disaster Shinji Sato is a Japanese fourth-grader born the week before the disastrous magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami struck Japan's east coast in March of 2011. Carried out of the hospital shortly before the tsunami swallowed up his coastal town of Yamada in Iwate Prefecture on March 11, Sato grew up strong and healthy in a community that benefited in its recovery from a group of sumo wrestlers who charged forward to provide aid. Young sumo prospects including Shinji Sato (front row, 2nd from R) gather for a group photo with the...

High school students want to hand down 2011 disaster experience Around 90 percent of high school students at six schools in northeastern Japan said they wanted their experiences from the March 11, 2011, quake, tsunami and nuclear disaster to be handed down to future generations in the hope lessons can be learned, a Kyodo News survey found Tuesday. In the survey that was distributed to 210 students, 89 percent, or 187 students, said they would generally like to hand down their memories to those who did not experience the disaster. Reasons cited included to "prevent a similar disaster," to "not...

The Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami forever changed the life of a 50-year-old man living in